Claw of tools for drawing nails or spikes.



No. 807,643. V PATBNTED DEC. 19, 1905.

G. E. SLY.

CLAW OF TOOLS FOR DRAWING NAILS OR SPIKES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 23, 1905.

trains STATES Parana OFFICE.

GEORGE E. SLY, OF SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO JOHN JOHNSTON, JR, OFESQONDIDO, CALIFORNIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Dec. 1 9, 1905.

Application filed January 23, 1905. Serial No. 242,428.

To all whom it mag/concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. SLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Diego, in the county of San Diego, State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Claws of Tools for Drawing N ails or Spikes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of tools which are provided with a claw for drawing nails or spikes; and the object thereof is to providea tool of that class with a claw having ,a plurality of claw-slots whereby a nail may be artly pulling iin she in the other claw-slot, thereby enabling the use of the tool in pulling nails Without bending the same and avoiding the necessity of the use of a block with the tool in order to pull a nail without bending it. I accomplish this object by the tool described herein and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which show my invention applied to a hammer.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved hammer with the handle partly-broken away. Fig. 2 is an edge view of. the same viewed from the claw side thereof.

In the drawings the hammer-head 3 is provided with the striking-face 4 of ordinary construction, and the handle 5 is secured thereto in the ordinary manner. The claw 6 is provided with a slot 7, which extends nearly to that portion of the head which receives the handle and forms with the surrounding walls thereof what Iterm a starting-claw. As shown in the drawings, this slot starts at one side of theclaw and runs diagonally toward the center thereof, so that the outer wall of the slot may have sufiicient strength for the strain incident upon starting a nail, and that a finishingrc'law may be constructed at the side of the starting-claw with sufficient strength to finish pulling the nail or spike. In the tip of the claw is a second slot 8, which with the wallssurrounding the same forms what I term a finishingclawthat is, a claw by means of which after the nail has been started and drawn by the startingclaw as far as the same can be drawn without bending can be used to finish ulling the nail. It will be understood that t ese claw-slots are finished in the manner usual with clawslots of the hammers now in use.

ulled in one claw-slot and the In the use of my hammer it will be understood that the starting-claw is placed on the nailin the usual. manner and with the handle the nail is drawn out of the timber in which it is found as far as it can be drawn without bending it in the usual manner The hammer is then slipped oiI the nail and the finishing-claw is then slip ed onto the nail and it is pulled from the tim er. As the inner end of the starting-claw is close to the fulcrum, it will be seen that it has very great power, and a nail can be started therewith which could not be started by a claw of ordinary construc tion, and that after it has been drawn from the timber'as far as it can be drawn with the starting-claw without bending it has been drawn a sufiicient distance thatthe finishingclaw can be used to finish pulling the nail.

This improved claw may be a part of any of the tools for drawing nails or spikes, such as claw-bars, hatchets, and other tools.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

p 1. A. tool for drawing nails and spikes provided with a plurality of claw-slots of different depths, the dee er of said claw-slots com mencing at one sid e of the shallower ofthe claw-slots and running toward and terminating near the central longitudinalline of the claw-drawing portion of the tool, the shallower of said claw-slots terminating within a short distance of the end of the claw and being adapted to receive nails or spikes therein.

2. As an article of manufacture a tool for drawing nails and s ikes provided-with a claw having two claw-s ots therein starting from the end of the claw, one of said claw-slots being deeper than the other and starting at one side of the claw and running toward and terminating near the central longitudinal line of the claw, the other claw-slot terminating near the end of the claw, and both of said claw-slots being adapted to receive nails and spikes.

In witness that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my name this 12th day of January, 1905.

GEORGE E. SLY.

Witnesses: I

W. T. HALE, HoR'rENsE T. HALE. 

